[LAD] OT: alternative fuel for cars [was: Re: Car engine sound emulation for future electic cars. ideas ?]

[Arnold Krille]

Am Dienstag, 5. August 2008 schrieb Patrick Shirkey:
> Arnold Krille wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 5. August 2008 schrieb Patrick Shirkey:
> >> Not once we melt the arctic and the antarctic. Then we will have lot's
> >> of extra water all round ;-)
> > Scientists aren't sure of that! Because ice has a lower density then
> > water, one volume-unit of ice is bigger than the same volume-unit of
> > water. So if the ice-caps melt and there is no ground underneath, just
> > ice and water, it might very well be that the sea-level goes down instead
> > of up!
> Oh, so all this talk of rising sea levels and islands in the pacific
> already going under water is just being wasting time?

No. I just said that one theory is that the sea-level will rise when the ice 
melts. But another theory is that the sea-level will actually drop (while 
there is more water in the liquid phase in the sea).

Its just that no one tested it yet wether actually melting the actual ice-caps 
is going to rise or lower the sea level.
And even if you know the non-ice landscape both in the arctic and greenland, 
you still have to calculate a lot of ice-volume against a lot of water-volume 
to know which theory seems to be true..

Arnold

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